Now, nearly 50 years after the first Big Mac went on sale, its creator Michael Dilligatti has died.

Despite his love for fast food, Michael, known to friends as ‘Jim’, lived to the impressive age of 98

He was running a McDonald’s franchise in Pittsburgh at the time, when he invented the chain’s signature burger with two all-beef patties, ‘special sauce,’ lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions on a sesame seed bun.